Party of Five

Last week we dedicated a few days on insects and spiders. Luckily our local nature center created camps that you could bring home to do with kids. One of the first days of activities was all about insects. I decided to take some of those ideas and elaborate on spiders. Mostly because Desmond has arachnophobia ( fear of spiders). My thought was that he could learn and really understand the importance of spiders in our ecosystem. It really helped Luca with his fear of bees, so why not! So as part of the Nature centers activities, they provided card stock , white crayon, and water color paint. I first took the time to draw some webs on the card stock paper (white). I told them they would paint with water color and see the design. They really enjoyed this. Its super easy to do at home. All three kiddos loved it!    The camp then provided us with yarn to make our own spider web for the kids to jump around. Unfortunately it was not nearly enough, but fear not, this mama has a lot of...